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She‘s on a diet and you thin-shame her. Not cool!

Sounds like some very cool miniatures at least. Let's hope it checks out!

Or can‘t carry. Joey the Executioner can‘t even lift his own sword! 🤭 Sorry for always singling you out, Joey, even on Christmas! BTW, Merry Christmas/happy holidays or just a good ol’ nice Sunday to all of you!

A bit off-topic, so sorry, for that, but I thought I'd share InfernalBrush's youtube channel, just been watching it in the background while wrapping up gifts... he's a former Eavy Metal painter who has worked on many of our favorite armies and it's really interesting to see him paint stuff in the official EM way, it's not just good for ideas but also picking up some skills and knowledge without grabbing a brush yourself. The Eavy Metal paint jobs are even more pristine than one might think from most photos! https://www.youtube.com/@InfernalBrush/videos

I'm willing to bet that it's Nighthaunt, it's definitely not Tzeentch. If I'm wrong, I'll burn my army and collect Lumineth! And if I'm right, I'll do the same, yeehaw!

I‘d really like to have heroes not be in „tiers“ - in AoS you‘re kinda only a proper hero if you got a huge base and some critter with you. I liked that in WHFB your hero could just be a single dude walking on his own and still show flashy posers who‘s boss! Dunno if GW feels this more cinematic or it‘s a sales decision but I liked guys like Aekhold Helbrass back then. Right now very few heroes on foot feel like proper murder-machines. Maybe vamps and FEC heroes… I miss how badass Tzeentchian heroes used to be. Not just supreme sorcerers but also deadly in close combat! Now we‘re usually a bunch of nerds with chicken feet! 😂

I think at this point I'd definitely deserve to be put in front of a Lumineth kangaroo court! 😄 But hey, life as a brimstone horror is hard as it is!

I feel honored! 😎 Did you forget to remove the flash from your clogs or are you trying to be taller, short king? Write me down twice in your little diary!

But what if it isn't the lady of ruin? You bet on that... if you had bet your firstborn, or house, then okay, but playing lumineth? That my friend is too high a price! PS: Christmas is the time of giving - I'm sure Settra's no Christian either but maybe he'll help convince you anyways. 😄

Y'know, take the new Chaos lord on foot, use the one helmet from the new chaos knights (on the picture it's the first mini in the top row, on the left side), greenstuff the middle (there are other similar ones to Crom's too) and you've got yourself a pretty accurate new Crom. His necklace is easy enough to sculpt and all he'd need is an axe in the hand that holds his shield and some small details like spike on his knee. It's difficult to be more vanilla than Crom the conqueror! 🤭

I really don‘t think so, sorry. GW thinks these pics generate hype for upcoming releases, probably some marketing „genius“ told them so. I‘ll be honest, I‘d rather have fewer but actually useful teaser images for future releases from time to time instead of lots of cryptic images that often could be anything. But some like it I guess, so good for those.

Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh and our very own boss obviously! Since you‘re in a dire spot, perhaps the Great Horned Rat will come as well. I could also invite my Brimstone co-workers but they‘re buzzkills, I got that covered already! 😎👍 PS: I‘ll write Settra too, just for you. It‘s Christmas after all!

We don‘t even joke about that. Time for an intervention, I‘ll call the others! 😱

Looks like something with a long neck… don‘t wanna scream dragon as it could just be something for 40k but who knows…

Do you have any idea what you‘ve done? And here we go… 🙈

Oh, you can bet your little green butt that those will come - perhaps later than sooner but at least the other releases for our green friends so far didn‘t disappoint in the slightest! 👌

Still one of my favorite AoS minis. ❤️‍🔥

It still sucks though… you might not be in a hurry but I bet many are, it‘s a great little gift and this was obviously timed to be out before christmas. Sure, it‘s no real tragedy but it was entirely doable. Failure needs to be punished! 🥰

Yeah, it‘s damn shame they started to have many online exclusives… high prices and long waits is a lame combo! Strangely I got a lot of what the heck reactions here last time I lamented this. I‘m sorry for all those that wanted their christmas gobbo, that‘s a total fail on GW‘s part and I‘m tired of not calling it what it is. Also I hate that I still have no Nurgle harbinger. I‘d never keep him obviously but I wanted to paint him up and give him to a good mate (he doesn‘t invest much time in painting and wanted me to paint something for him for ages…). Ebay is the solution I guess - but it feels strange that a new, amazing mini doesn‘t get produced in satisfying quantities and a timely manner.

I did never argue against your point, you just interpreted it like I did. Historically how many women were wearing knightly armor? The exceptions are absolute outliers, so Brets would have like one single woman in knightly armor maybe to reflect that number. Having female knights in the bret range is entirely "unrealistic" if we go by historic standards (which we don't), so I'm not sure it makes sense to include it as an argument. I do agree though that they will look better than female Chaos Warriors cause the historic armor is not a male power fantasy but a functional design and thus a female head will look more congruent, which the chaos warrior's armor however is/isn't and objectively so. And that's where I say that it creates a visual conflict. An objective one, hence I'm stepping in here and arguing my POV. I know, I don't have to use female heads. But it's not like I hate female minis in general, sisters from 40k are awesome e.g., the female SCE look great (and they are just as powerful if not more than CWs) and both are heavily armored female warriors. But the basic CW with female heads are meh and that's down to the armor's design. And why I'd argue that they should make some changes for female CW minis to fit more harmoniously or not bother. Anyways, I'll stop now too but I feel we're kinda arguing parallel to each other in this regard.

I think it's obvious that's a woman. What I'm getting at is that a realistic armor is more "unisex" due to the way it looks than some of the fantasy armors we have in AoS/Warhammer that are clearly male (like gigantic shoulder pauldrons) in nature. Kinda like Space Marines. Hence why I say that putting just a female head on them doesn't sell the idea all that well, they need to do more to make great female sculpts for those units. it's almost like putting a female head on nude male barbarian and think it's good enough. Y'know, female warriors don't have to wear skimpy armor or anything but if the proportions are not in any way feminine or at least gender-neutral, it's visually off. We don't have movement or even realistic human proportions, nor size/resolution to work with here, it just looks like you stuck some other minis head on it and be done with it. Btw, thanks for the interesting discussion so far! 👌

Chaos Warriors armor is hyper-masculine without being modeled on the male physique (think armor with a chest and abs) to say the least. Put a female head on a classic liberator's body and it would look off too.

That's not really the point tho. Nobody said they needed to have boob armor or child-bearing hips, it's about proportions, not armor details. Also, Joan of Arc is usually seen in a much bigger size (artwork or TV/movie representations) than minis so you can see it by her face and height or even movement that she's female, minis do have their own proportions so they need more distinct visual cues than RL examples to work that well by the fact that they're small, static pieces of plastic. hence why female bret knights will likely work better (disregarding the historical novelty of women wearing armor like that) than say Chaos Warriors! See this Joan of Arc mini for example, it's bigger than AoS minis but due to the realistic proportions it reads as female right away: And this does not really:

Do they really? I mean, yes, their armor has a very similar look but the dimensions are completely different. Certainly beats putting a female head on a dude's body and be done with it IMO. Stormcast have a clear distinction between m and f models too. Hence why I think Chaos warriors would look better that way too, although I don't really see Chaos Warriors as something feminine in general anyways but that's not really part of the discussion. But right now it feels like putting a female head on a fyreslayer and go "there - here's your female version. Be happy".

I'll out myself, I think it doesn't work for all models/units. Bear with me, I'll try to explain my POV. E.g. the current Chaos Warriors feel off to me as women, as the visual style is clearly male and then you stick a women's head on them. I would've liked female Chaos armor in the way that Stormcast armor for females is a bit different in their proportions so that it reads as a woman, doesn't need any sort of distinct breast armor or something though. Yes, I even know women that are just as muscular as men (one's in my gym, I wish I was as diligent as her xD) but I'm still old-fashioned there I guess. It's not about women being just as strong or stronger than men, especially not in fiction. And even then I'd probably just like chaos dudes better tbh but yeah, that's preference likely down to knowing it that way and the visuals. It was certainly strange to see people argue that the recent Curseling e.g. "is" a woman now tho so I would've liked more visual diversity between the genders armor (I mean he could be if you want him to be but nothing about him suggests it outside of a slightly peaked chest armor that the old one (a dude in lore) had as well).... I'm not sure female Bret knights won't look off to me either, I'll be honest, but I think it's less of a visual contradiction as Brets aren't as massive as CWs. Doesn't ruin anything for me but in a more historically-influenced game such as WHFB it might feel more off than in AoS. Some units I would've liked to include much more female sculpts, e.g. Kairic Acolytes for my army, where it just feels natural to have more gals in the club as in a high-fantasy setting, they'd join our nice cult hopefully too. Guess I'm a mixed bag but Im certainly one to argue that it sometimes feels off to me. No offense intended, it's certainly no dealbreaker for me but I count myself to "one of those" in a way. I know many here disagree with my stance there but I think it's fair to explain why I think like that.